Solumina Supplier Quality Management (SQM) software offers a systematic approach to ease and validate supplier quality on an enterprise scale. It addresses the challenges complex manufacturers face in managing extensive supply chains by providing the visibility and communication needed to monitor and respond to changes in supplier performance. SQM software enables suppliers to contribute their specific knowledge in the design process, creating a proactive, collaborative approach to consistently deliver high-quality finished goods. It provides centralized communication with suppliers, creating a framework for collaborative supplier quality and eliminating the problems caused by email and paper-based communication. A well-designed SQM solution delivers more than on-spec parts, reducing the frequency of inspections, saving time and money while yielding higher productivity. As suppliers show sustained performance and reliability, SQM relaxes the inspection requirements.

Features:

• Inspections: Solumina SQM employs dynamic state switching for inspections, scaling testing frequency based on real-time supplier KPIs. It adjusts inspection procedures and lot sizes according to supplier performance, ensuring adequate testing without extraneous QA.
• Compliance: Solumina SQM improves visibility into compliance by providing the capability to query real-time supplier status, constraints, and history records for all related processes and activities.
• Non-Conforming Material Report (NCMR): With Solumina SQM, manufacturers can access any supplier’s history of NCMRs and use that information to assess overall supplier quality.
• Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA): The Solumina closed-loop CAPA process helps reduce issues by more accurately isolating the root cause and providing the integration needed for a cross-functional team to resolve them. Solumina SQM creates historical records for every CAPA process that occurs during production.
• Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP): APQP helps manufacturers keep up with today’s stringent quality standards by providing a framework for focusing on product quality early in the design process. It identifies potential areas of failure and uses that information to plan quality to support any weaknesses.
• Production Part Approval Process (PPAP): PPAP ensures part compliance and associated changes throughout the value chain. It focuses on the verification of the design and production processes used to produce the part and implements final quality process control plans.
• Measurement System Analysis (MSA): Solumina SQM software ensures that the variation in inspections is minimal. During the measuring phase, it collects data accurately, using the same measurements to provide contextualized data.
• Statistical Process Control (SPC): Solumina SQM employs contextualized data collection to control and optimize any business process using statistical analysis.